0. DOCID:15037 SCORE: 0.00383009442063473DOCNO: 3572217OWNER: NLMSTATUS: MEDLINEQUALIFIER: surgeryQUALIFIER: methodsAUTHOR: H J Shaw HJPUBTYPE: Journal ArticleJOURNALTITLE: The Journal of laryngology and otology. COUNTRY: ENGLANDTITLE: A view of partial laryngectomy in the treatment of laryngeal cancer.PUBDATE: 19870201
Attention is drawn to the problems of surgical resection by partial laryngectomy after full therapeutic dosage of telecobalt irradiation. Material is presented from two treatment centres to indicate trends in surgical treatment and the complications experienced. Results will be given which confirm a reasonable expectation of cure and functional conservation by vertical partial laryngectomy for recurrence of glottic cancer after irradiation. The results of treatment of recurrent supraglottic cancer by horizontal partial laryngectomy gave more cause for concern in terms of complications and survival. In conclusion an attempt is made, based on the quoted experience, to define the position of conservation surgery in two centres for laryngeal cancer in the United Kingdom.

1. DOCID:15908 SCORE: 0.00356121729575093DOCNO: 3615667OWNER: NLMSTATUS: MEDLINEDESCRIPTOR: DermatoglyphicsQUALIFIER: etiologyAUTHOR: C M Huang CMAUTHOR: M P Mi MPPUBTYPE: Journal ArticleJOURNALTITLE: Proceedings of the National Science Council, Republic of China. Part B, Life sciences. COUNTRY: TAIWANTITLE: Digital dermal patterns in breast cancer.PUBDATE: 19870401
Fingerprints of 570 breast cancer cases and the same number of matched controls were obtained from the population-based finger print file in Hawaii for studying the association between breast cancer and digital dermal patterns and ridge counts. The results showed that breast cancer patients had a significant excess of radial loops on the left hand. It was also found that the frequency of ulnar loops on the left hand was significantly elevated for premenopausal women with breast cancer, whereas an excess of radial loops on the left hand was observed for the postmenopausal women with breast cancer. No significant difference for the total and absolute ridge counts was found between breast cancer patients and controls.

2. DOCID:14707 SCORE: 0.00336363225697237DOCNO: 2842572OWNER: NLMSTATUS: MEDLINEQUALIFIER: bloodQUALIFIER: bloodQUALIFIER: bloodQUALIFIER: bloodQUALIFIER: bloodQUALIFIER: bloodAUTHOR: B N Zyrianov BNAUTHOR: S A Velichko SAAUTHOR: V V Kuznetsov VVAUTHOR: V S Siianov VSPUBTYPE: Journal ArticleJOURNALTITLE: Meditsinskaia radiologiia. COUNTRY: USSRTITLE: [Main indicators of hormonal status in lung diseases]PUBDATE: 19880801
A radioimmunoassay was used in vitro in the blood serum of 156 lung cancer patients, 21 patients with benign pulmonary tumors and 100 patients with chronic nonspecific pulmonary diseases to study the levels of 9 hormones reflecting function of the major links of endocrine regulation. The most important feature of pulmonary tumor growth was the activation of the hypophyseal-adrenal system. Endocrine shifts in lung cancer and in chronic nonspecific pulmonary diseases were similar in nature. Of the entire spectrum of hormones the importance of ACTH, cortisol, calcitonin and parathyroid hormone was emphasized in differential diagnosis of lung cancer.

3. DOCID:15021 SCORE: 0.00317580370077577DOCNO: 3313725OWNER: NLMSTATUS: MEDLINEQUALIFIER: complicationsAUTHOR: D H Kennedy DHAFFILIATION: Department of Infectious Diseases, Ruchill Hospital, Glasgow.PUBTYPE: Journal ArticlePUBTYPE: ReviewJOURNALTITLE: Scottish medical journal. COUNTRY: SCOTLANDTITLE: Clinical manifestations of HIV infections.PUBDATE: 19870801
The wide clinical spectrum of HIV infection is reflected in the new CDC classification. Presentations range from acute infection, asymptomatic carriage and persistent lymphadenopathy through constitutional upset and neurological disease to the opportunistic infections and cancers of AIDS. AIDS is an enigmatic disease which presents special clinical diagnostic and management problems. Although any system may be affected the lungs and the brain are the most important target organs. Though the underlying disease is currently untreatable, many of the complications of AIDS are amenable to prompt therapy. Seropositive patients should be monitored to detect early signs of significant HIV disease. Skilled counselling about the avoidance of co-factors which may potentiate HIV infection, is important.

4. DOCID:13112 SCORE: 0.00311956571559289DOCNO: 3308043OWNER: NLMSTATUS: MEDLINEDESCRIPTOR: Decision TheoryQUALIFIER: prevention & controlAUTHOR: J R Feussner JRAUTHOR: D L Simel DLAUTHOR: D B Matchar DBAFFILIATION: Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina.PUBTYPE: Journal ArticlePUBTYPE: ReviewJOURNALTITLE: Clinics in geriatric medicine. COUNTRY: UNITED STATESTITLE: Quantitative approaches to clinical diagnosis of cancer in elderly patients.PUBDATE: 19870801
Recommendations for cancer detection in the elderly are based on even less evidence of efficacy than are recommendations for the general adult population. In this article, we present some quantitative measures of test performance--operating characteristics, effectiveness and cost effectiveness/cost benefit--and show examples of how to use these measures to adjust diagnostic strategies for factors especially relevant to the elderly.

5. DOCID:15901 SCORE: 0.00286366128898828DOCNO: 3691746OWNER: NLMSTATUS: MEDLINEDESCRIPTOR: Alcohol DrinkingQUALIFIER: epidemiologyQUALIFIER: epidemiologyAUTHOR: M P Bravo MPAUTHOR: J Del Rey Calero JAUTHOR: M Conde MAFFILIATION: Department of Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain.PUBTYPE: Journal ArticleJOURNALTITLE: European journal of epidemiology. COUNTRY: ITALYTITLE: Bladder cancer and the consumption of alcoholic beverages in Spain.PUBDATE: 19871201
The relationship between bladder cancer and alcohol consumption was investigated in a case-control study conducted in 506 patients (453 males and 53 females) with diagnoses of papillary urothelial carcinoma during 1978-1982 at "La Paz" hospital (Madrid), and an equal number of controls matched for age, sex and date of admission to the hospital. The results showed that the risk of bladder cancer does not increase with the intake of beer, wine and spirit beverages. However, a high risk of bladder cancer was associated with consumption of wine mixed with "gaseosa" (a refreshment beverage consisting of carbonated water plus artificial sweeteners).

7. DOCID:14673 SCORE: 0.00265874277588989DOCNO: 3829876OWNER: NLMSTATUS: MEDLINEQUALIFIER: therapeutic useQUALIFIER: surgeryQUALIFIER: surgeryQUALIFIER: surgeryQUALIFIER: surgeryAUTHOR: T W Butler TWAUTHOR: J Gefter JAUTHOR: D Kleto DAUTHOR: E H Shuck EHAUTHOR: B W Ruffner BWPUBTYPE: Case ReportsPUBTYPE: Journal ArticleJOURNALTITLE: Diseases of the colon and rectum.COUNTRY: UNITED STATESTITLE: Squamous-cell carcinoma of the anus in condyloma acuminatum. Successful treatment with preoperative chemotherapy and radiation.PUBDATE: 19870401
A 40-year-old black male had unresectable giant condylomata acuminata of the anorectum with invasive, squamous-cell carcinoma. He was treated with intravenous 5-fluorouracil and mitomycin-C and with extended field radiation to the primary lesion. An abdominoperineal resection was performed, and the surgical specimen contained no residual cancer. Three years after diagnosis, the patient has no recurrent cancer. This case illustrates that otherwise unresectable giant condylomata acuminata with invasive carcinoma may be rendered operable with chemotherapy and radiation.

8. DOCID:14625 SCORE: 0.00265872945174632DOCNO: 3175829OWNER: NLMSTATUS: MEDLINEDESCRIPTOR: PalpationQUALIFIER: methodsQUALIFIER: pathologyQUALIFIER: pathologyAUTHOR: M C Wilhelm MCAUTHOR: H J Wanebo HJAFFILIATION: Department of Surgery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville 22908.PUBTYPE: Journal ArticleJOURNALTITLE: Surgery, gynecology & obstetrics. COUNTRY: UNITED STATESTITLE: Technique and guidelines for needle localization biopsy of nonpalpable lesions of the breast.PUBDATE: 19881101
The advances made in mammography, including its accuracy, safety and publicity, will lead to an increasing number of biopsies of the breast after needle localization. The surgeon must carefully evaluate the mammograms and orient the location of the tip of the wire with respect to the mammographic abnormality and the exact location within the breast. The technique described has been used in more than 600 instances. It has led to the detection of cancer in 20 per cent of nonpalpable suspicious mammographic findings. It is well tolerated, readily accomplished, cost effective and accurate.

9. DOCID:14709 SCORE: 0.00263449049489117DOCNO: 2898701OWNER: NLMSTATUS: MEDLINEDESCRIPTOR: MenstruationQUALIFIER: etiologyAUTHOR: H W Simpson HWAUTHOR: W Candlish WAUTHOR: A W Pauson AWAUTHOR: C S McArdle CSAUTHOR: K Griffiths KAUTHOR: R G Small RGAFFILIATION: University Department of Pathology, Royal Infirmary, Glasgow.PUBTYPE: Journal ArticleJOURNALTITLE: Lancet. COUNTRY: ENGLANDTITLE: Genesis of breast cancer is in the premenopause.PUBDATE: 19880701
In Britain and other high-risk countries, about a third of patients with breast cancer are premenopausal at diagnosis. In the remainder, tumour initiation might have occurred in the premenopause, even though the clinical presentation was late in life. This possibility has important implications for breast cancer prevention and screening. The relations between the patient's age and tumour kinetics, prognosis, oestrogen receptors, and environmental X-ray carcinogenesis were studied, together with the age-related protection afforded by pregnancy. The findings support the hypothesis that breast cancer is initiated in the premenopause.

10. DOCID:13437 SCORE: 0.00256623958675757DOCNO: 2920138OWNER: NLMSTATUS: MEDLINEDESCRIPTOR: RubberQUALIFIER: mortalityQUALIFIER: mortalityQUALIFIER: adverse effectsAUTHOR: Z F Zhang ZFAUTHOR: S Z Yu SZAUTHOR: W X Li WXAUTHOR: B C Choi BCAFFILIATION: Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Shanghai Medical University, P R of China.PUBTYPE: Journal ArticleJOURNALTITLE: British journal of industrial medicine. COUNTRY: ENGLANDTITLE: Smoking, occupational exposure to rubber, and lung cancer.PUBDATE: 19890101
A cohort of 1624 employees (957 men, 667 women) in a rubber factory in Shanghai have been followed up since 1972 and their 12 year mortality experience is presented. The relative risk of lung cancer for smokers was 8.5 for men and 11.4 for women and for rubber workers exposed to curing agents or talc powder 3.2 for men and 4.6 for women.

11. DOCID:14865 SCORE: 0.0024631217660275DOCNO: 3356768OWNER: NLMSTATUS: MEDLINEDESCRIPTOR: Chromosomes, HumanQUALIFIER: ultrastructureAUTHOR: C Templado CAUTHOR: J Benet JAUTHOR: A Genescà AAUTHOR: J Navarro JAUTHOR: M R Caballin MRAUTHOR: R Mirò RAUTHOR: J Egozcue JAFFILIATION: Departamento de Biologia Celular y Fisiologia, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain.PUBTYPE: Journal ArticleJOURNALTITLE: Human reproduction (Oxford, England) COUNTRY: ENGLANDTITLE: Human sperm chromosomes.PUBDATE: 19880201
Sperm chromosome studies have been performed in 70 normal males. The incidence of aneuploidy in this group is approximately 3-4%, and that of structural anomalies close to 5%. In carriers of reciprocal or Robertsonian translocations, the results are extremely variable, with percentages of unbalanced sperm from 8 to 87%. No unbalanced spermatozoa have been observed in patients with pericentric or paracentric inversions. In cancer patients treated with radio and/or chemotherapy, the incidence of chromosome abnormalities is much higher, and significantly different from that found in controls.

12. DOCID:14209 SCORE: 0.00244342077858902DOCNO: 2724602OWNER: NLMSTATUS: MEDLINEQUALIFIER: radiotherapyQUALIFIER: radiotherapyQUALIFIER: etiologyQUALIFIER: etiologyQUALIFIER: adverse effectsAUTHOR: N Ogata NAUTHOR: H Ebihara HAUTHOR: K Koga KAUTHOR: K Matsuki KAUTHOR: K Nishikawa KAUTHOR: K Watanabe KPUBTYPE: Case ReportsPUBTYPE: Journal ArticleJOURNALTITLE: Rinsho hoshasen. Clinical radiography. COUNTRY: JAPANTITLE: [A case of radiation myelitis following radiotherapy in lung cancer]PUBDATE: 19890101
A case of radiation myelitis developed 1 year and 5 months after radiotherapy for lung cancer is reported. A 75-years old male was given a dose of 70 Gy to the tumor with a fraction dose of 2 Gy, 5 times per week. He developed the weakness and disturbance of sense in bilateral lower extremities, which gradually worsened in spite of a variety of treatment. Some discussions on tolerance dose, fraction dose and fraction number are made as well as technique of irradiation.

14. DOCID:14175 SCORE: 0.002332269481538DOCNO: 3812846OWNER: NLMSTATUS: MEDLINEDESCRIPTOR: African Continental Ancestry GroupDESCRIPTOR: European Continental Ancestry GroupQUALIFIER: analysisQUALIFIER: analysisQUALIFIER: analysisAUTHOR: L N Beverly LNAUTHOR: W D Flanders WDAUTHOR: R C Go RCAUTHOR: S J Soong SJPUBTYPE: Journal ArticleJOURNALTITLE: American journal of public health. COUNTRY: UNITED STATESTITLE: A comparison of estrogen and progesterone receptors in black and white breast cancer patients.PUBDATE: 19870301
After standardization for age and menopausal status, the prevalence of estrogen receptor positivity among 88 White breast cancer patients was about .72 compared with a prevalence of about .54 among Black patients. The prevalence of progesterone receptor positivity was also higher among White than among Black patients, although the magnitude of the difference was smaller. These differences were unchanged after adjustment for tumor size and nodal and distant metastases in addition to age and menopausal status.